Sentences with word «wrasse»

Across the top of the colourful coral covered peaks there is a good chance of Napoleon wrasse, hunting trevallies and manta rays.

There are more than a dozen dive sites around the island including Maori Wrasse Bommie, Spiders Ledge, Coral Gardens and Anchor Bommie, all of which can be found on their dive page.

Spot the cleaning stations where cleaner wrasse clean the fish and traverse over giant clams.

Wall diving from 40 - 60 ft offers the chance to see all kinds of rays, turtles and rivers of wrasse swimming along stunning coral structures.

A great place see «big stuff» like Spanish mackerel, dogtooth tuna, jacks, barracuda, eagle rays, grey reef sharks, giant napoleon wrasse, many different big schooling fish, and more.

Creole wrasse flash past, hounded by great barracuda.

There's usually a pretty good current moving past, so there are often massive schools of creole wrasse hanging around the dropoff.

It is common to see Napolean wrasse here, as well as black rays, leopard sharks, and white tip reef sharks.

The Maori Wrasse Bommie dive site is in the north western corner of the reef, and includes broken sandy bottom with small bommies and boulders, plus a large extent of staghorn coral which seems to be a favourite haunt of the turtles.

These clients recognise cleaner wrasse by their small size and the blue stripe running along their sides.

Several «cleaning stations» dot the reef and big groupers and snappers settle down to be picked clean by neon gobies, Pederson cleaner shrimp and juvenile bluehead wrasse.

These 10 small islands that lie between Corsica and Sardinia are the site of many scientific studies because of the abundant marine life that fills their waters, and scuba divers will be able to spot colorful and exotic fish such as rainbow wrasse and silver bream.

Yellowhead Wrasse with bright yellow heads and turquoise bodies, magenta Fairy Basslets, deep blue Tangs, and Blue Striped Grunts with electric blue stripes running across their bodies.

Steep walls are covered in gorgonian fans with hidden seahorses, an inquisitive Napoleon wrasse swim right up to you and eagle rays dance in the blue.

They are joined by the spectacular displays of several species of Flasher Wrasse.

In the meantime, Halvorsen hopes that the new rules, involving stricter size limits for which wrasse can be caught, will be accepted, leaving more fertile fish in the sea to replenish wild populations.

The sampling sites were all along the Skagerrak coast of southern Norway, a region where wrasse have been caught and shipped to salmon farmers for decades.

Home to a variety of shy creatures like pipefish, sea horses, eels, octopuses; as well as prolific fish life from wrasse to reef sharks.

She got to the issue anthropogenic noise in aquatic environments by conducting her Master thesis in Norway, investigating the influence of anthropogenic noise on reproductive behavior and vocal communication of the corkwing wrasse at the Institute of Marine Research, Bergen.

A team from Norway discovered a decline in wild wrasse populations after comparing catch rates at four marine protected areas — where fishing is banned — and at four regions where fishing is allowed.

Small fish called wrasse painlessly peck sea lice from the skin of farmed salmon, enabling salmon farmers rely less on powerful pesticides that can harm other marine life.

In some species, such as the Ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta), all fish are initially females and gender is determined by social status.

Slow - mo footage shows a tubelip wrasse «kissing» coral.

Jon and Dylan finished their Open Water Course by getting a visit from one of our bigger species — a big Napoleon Wrasse decided to come and check them out at the safety stop on the final dive of their course.

Underwater, I spied on Sergeant Majors, parrot fish, stickfish, and Rainbow Wrasse as they flitted in and out of the oatmeal - colored algae.

Besides that, schooling fusiliers, batfishes, Blacktip Reef Shark and a Napoleon Wrasse cruising along the reef also made this a sight.

The dive sites vary completely, some are famous for the aquatic life - barracuda, grunts, salemas, ornate wrasse, glass eyes, almaco jacks, sea bream, parrot fish, grouper, lizard fish, mullet, flounder, sea horses, sting rays, butterfly rays, the occasional turtle and angel sharks to name a few.

Wrasse help remove lice from salmon, enabling farmers to use fewer pesticides.

The cleaner wrasse stroke their clients to cement the relationship and ensure that they don't attack them.

Large - bodied species such as the blue - throated wrasse were observed in greater numbers in a marine reserve following protection from fishing, leading to greater community stability and resilience.

According to Dr. Binning, «cleaner wrasse act like the vets of the sea.

Such hatcheries are being developed in Scotland — another major producer of farmed salmon — but they are not yet at a point where they could replace wrasse caught in the wild.

In the light of the new findings, the Norwegian government's Directorate of Fisheries is now evaluating new rules to restrict how much wrasse is caught, and to outlaw harvesting fish in the most fertile size ranges.

Halvorsen says that unchecked, urchins can completely obliterate kelp forests, and this could happen if wrasse are overfished.

They found that the goldsinny wrasse was up to 65 per cent more abundant in samples from the non-fishing zones.

A population crash is unlikely to be imminent, says Halvorsen, but this is the first time we've realised that natural wrasse populations seem to be shrinking.

Wrasse consume many molluscs and crustaceans, and play a key role controlling populations of sea urchins that can deplete seafloor kelp forests — vital sanctuaries for many marine species including young cod.

My fieldwork takes me to Corsica to study a species of fish with a particularly complex and fascinating mating system (the ocellated wrasse).

But as juveniles, wrasse want to be served shrimp.

Mikayla Wrasse, certified veterinary technician, has been with the College of Veterinary Medicine just under two years.

Here the marine life is varied and plentiful, schools of tang and wrasse co habitate with Grouper and Sea Turtles.

But on one of our last safety stops at SD on the north coast of Nusa Penida a Humphead Wrasse decided to hang out with the divers for most of the three minutes.

Creature Feature Index Barracuda Bumphead Parrotfish Clownfish Clown Triggerfish Cuttlefish Dolphins Dwarf Minke Whales Frogfish Giant Galapagos Tortoises Great White Sharks Harlequin Ghostpipefish Komodo Dragons Leopard Sharks Lionfish Mandarinfish Manta Rays Marine Iguanas Mimic Octopus Moray Eels Napoleon Wrasse Nudibranchs Orang Utans Scalloped Hammerhead Sharks Sea Horses Sea Lions Sunfish Tawny Nurse Sharks Titan Triggerfish Trevallies Turtles Whale Sharks Wobbegongs

Keep your eyes open for large napoleon wrasse patrolling the area, as well as the occasional Whale Shark and Manta Ray.

Large Groupers and Napolen Wrasse often frequent these seas as well as other large pelagics.

Critters here can include eagle rays, turtles, lobsters, nurse sharks, and schools of blue wrasse in mid water.

And as a huge Napoleon Wrasse ambles over to check us out I realise this alone is probably the best reef I have ever seen.

See: Parrot fish, blacktail, butterfly fish, seargeant majors, moorish idol and goldbar wrasse, and amazing coral.